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Gilbert Shelton - Grateful Dead Shakedown Street Serigr

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Comics Start Price:1.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 900.00 USD
Gilbert Shelton - Grateful Dead Shakedown Street Serigr
<B>Gilbert Shelton - Grateful Dead Shakedown Street Serigraph Print, 150/170 (Alain Toupin, 2003).</B></I> Hey, you Deadheads, don't miss this wild print! It's from Gilbert Sheldon's cover to the Grateful Dead's 1978 Arista album, showing a somewhat freakish (as in Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) street scene, complete with cruising cars and cycles, winos and hookers, busting cops and boogie-loving babes! The art was slightly reworked and enhanced by Shelton, resulting in a design that reflected the pastel beauty of the San Francisco Bay area and architecture. This is a hand made 18-color serigraph on Arches paper, signed and numbered by Shelton, with an image size of 16" x 16", and an overall paper size of 20" x 20". This print is the first and only fine art print of this image, and would make a great companion to Robert Crumb's "The Klezmorim: Streets of Gold" offered elsewhere in this sale, which is also numbered 150. Robert and Gilbert were both regular contributors to <B>Zap Comix</B></I>, and are both now living in France. Shelton has done only two other album covers so far in his career; for bluesman Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and the late, great Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas Quintet). Truck on down and bid, brother! <I>From the collection of Barry Silbergeld of Art & Love of Music.</B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Large Flat (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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